Oregon Statutes 35.500 – Definitions for ORS 35.500 to 35.530
As used in ORS § 35.500 to 35.530:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 35.500
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Person: means person as defined by ORS § 174. See Oregon Statutes 35.215
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Property: means real or personal property or any interest therein of any kind or nature that is subject to condemnation. See Oregon Statutes 35.215
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) ‘Displaced person‘ means any person who moves, or is required to move the person’s residence and personal property incident thereto, or the person’s business or farm operation as a result of:
(a) Acquisition of the real property, in whole or in part, by a public entity; or
(b) Receipt of a written order by such person from a public entity to vacate the property for public use.
(2) ‘Federal Act’ means the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-646, 42 U.S.C. § 4601 et seq.) as in effect on January 1, 2003.
(3) ‘Public entity’ includes the state, a county, a city, a consolidated city-county as defined in ORS § 199.705 (1), a district, public authority, public agency and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the state when acquiring real property or any interest therein for public use. ‘Public entity’ also includes a private corporation that has the power to exercise the right of eminent domain.
(4) ‘Public use’ means a use for which real property may be acquired by a public entity as provided by law.
(5) ‘Real property’ or any interest therein includes tenements and hereditaments, and includes every interest, freehold and chattel, legal and equitable, present and future, vested and contingent, in such tenements and hereditaments. [Formerly 281.045]